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GM: Jim Bowden (since 1993)

1995 roster — every player, value & surplus

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+9.0
WAB — wins above budget
+10.7
TAB — roster Talent above budget
85–59 (0.590)
record · made playoffs
-2M
surplus $M (value/$)
42.9
roster fWAR
$43.8M
payroll
PlayerAgeServiceGfWARSalary $MSurplus $M
Reggie Sanders 27 arb 133 6.6 2.0 +4.4
Barry Larkin 31 FA-elig 131 5.3 5.9 -0.8
John Smiley 30 FA-elig 28 4.6 5.0 -0.6
Pete Schourek 26 arb 29 4.4 0.8 +3.5
Ron Gant 30 FA-elig 119 3.4 3.6 -0.3
Bret Boone 26 arb 138 2.2 0.4 +1.7
Jeff Branson 28 arb 122 2.2 0.3 +1.8
Jerome Walton 29 FA-elig 102 1.9 0.5 +1.3
Benito Santiago 30 FA-elig 81 1.8 0.7 +1.1
Jose Rijo 30 FA-elig 14 1.5 5.8 -4.3
David Wells↔ DET 32 FA-elig 11 1.5 0.8 +0.6
Eddie Taubensee 26 arb 80 1.3 0.7 +0.5
Hal Morris 30 FA-elig 101 1.2 3.3 -2.1
Mark Portugal↔ SFG 32 FA-elig 14 1.1 1.5 -0.5
Dave Burba↔ SFG 28 arb 15 1.1 0.2 +0.8
Hector Carrasco 25 pre-arb 64 0.9 0.1 +0.8
Thomas Howard 30 arb 113 0.9 0.7 +0.1
Mark Lewis 25 arb 81 0.8 0.2 +0.6
Xavier Hernandez 29 FA-elig 59 0.8 1.5 -0.7
Darren Lewis↔ SFG 27 arb 58 0.5 0.8 -0.3
Eric Anthony 27 FA-elig 47 0.4 0.6 -0.2
Mike Jackson 30 FA-elig 40 0.3 1.2 -0.9
Mariano Duncan↔ PHI 32 FA-elig 29 0.3 0.2 +0.1
Brian R. Hunter 27 arb 40 0.2 0.7 -0.5
Jeff Brantley 31 FA-elig 56 0.2 1.8 -1.6
Eric Owens 24 pre-arb 2 0.1 0.1 +0.0
Craig Worthington↔ TEX 30 FA-elig 10 0.1 0.1 +0.0
C.J. Nitkowski↔ DET 22 pre-arb 9 0.1 0.0 +0.0
Tim Pugh 28 arb 29 0.0 0.2 -0.1
Johnny Ruffin 23 pre-arb 10 0.0 0.2 -0.2
John Courtright 25 – 1 0.0 – –
Scott Sullivan 24 – 3 0.0 – –
Steve Gibralter 22 – 4 0.0 – –
Frank Viola 35 FA-elig 3 -0.0 0.2 -0.2
Mike Remlinger↔ NYM 29 arb 2 -0.1 0.0 -0.1
Nigel Wilson 25 pre-arb 5 -0.1 0.1 -0.2
Chuck McElroy 27 FA-elig 44 -0.1 0.8 -0.9
Brad Pennington↔ BAL 26 pre-arb 6 -0.1 0.1 -0.1
Matt Grott 27 – 2 -0.1 – –
Willie Greene 23 arb 8 -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Lenny Harris 30 FA-elig 101 -0.2 0.5 -0.7
Deion Sanders↔ SFG 27 FA-elig 33 -0.2 1.4 -1.6
Rick Reed 29 – 4 -0.2 – –
John Roper↔ SFG 23 – 2 -0.2 – –
Kevin Jarvis 25 pre-arb 19 -0.3 0.1 -0.4
Damon Berryhill 31 FA-elig 34 -0.4 0.6 -0.9
Pete Smith 29 – 11 -0.6 – –

47 players appeared (WAR is complete); salary & surplus are on record for 40 of them (85%). Players without a salary show "–" — no single historical salary source is fully complete (especially 2020–2022).

WAR = FanGraphs (fWAR). Green = produced more value than paid (bargain); red = paid more than produced. Service: pre-arb (<3 yr) / arb (3–6) / FA-eligible (6+). Click headers to sort.

History: front-office performance & develop-vs-buy (1985–2024)

Trade ledger (realized WAR, all-time)

Best acquisitions
PlayerYearWAR for CIN
Brandon Phillips200630.1
Aaron Harang200319.3
Sean Casey199815.9
Luis Castillo201713.9
Ken Griffey200010.6
Anthony DeSclafani20148.2
Dmitri Young19977.5
Norm Charlton19867.3
Ones that got away
PlayerYear tradedWAR elsewhere
Paul Konerko199824.5
Mike Cameron200019.8
Charlie Leibrandt198316.8
Jeff Montgomery198812.0
Dave Burba199811.7
Luis Castillo20228.7
John Franco19898.7
Brad Keller20177.9
Rosternomics — quantifying front-office skill, attribution-clean. Follow @rosternomics on X. Decision-makers on record back to 1933; resource-controlled metrics (WAR & payroll) cover 1985–2026.
Data: FanGraphs (WAR), Baseball-Reference & the Chadwick Bureau register (rosters, IDs), the Lahman Database, Baseball America prospect rankings (via The Baseball Cube), and public payroll records. Transaction and trade data was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet. Executive birth/death data via Wikidata (CC0); bios are original. Emoji graphics by OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0).
All figures are franchise-level outcomes credited to the decision-maker in the acquisition year — not solely attributable to one executive.